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What is the adjective for threadbare?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs thread and thrid which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

threadbare
  1. (of cloth) shabby, frayed and worn to an extent that warp threads show
  2. damaged or shabby
  3. (of a person) wearing clothes of threadbare material
  4. (of speech) banal or clichéd; trite or hackneyed
  5. Synonyms:
      6. tattered, frayed, ragged, tatty, worn, torn, holey, raggedy, old, mangy, moth-eaten, worn out, worn-out, in tatters, well worn, raggedy-ass, falling to pieces, in shreds, shabby, ratty, seedy, scruffy, decrepit, dilapidated, shoddy, ripped, worse for wear, tatterdemalion, tumbledown, tacky, run-down, faded, grungy, neglected, timeworn, beat-up, patched, battered, dog-eared, worn to shreds, rent, mean, dumpy, miserable, in rags, scrubby, in holes, sleazy, full of holes, unkempt … more
  6. Examples:
      7. “The bed had a thick straw pallet for a mattress, and the sheets were threadbare and grubby, but they had slept on worse.”
      “Raised in Cardonald, Glasgow, Mullan, and his seven siblings were working-class misfits in a grand but threadbare rented house.”
      “Most of the natives lived a threadbare existence with little above the bare necessities of life.”
thready
  1. Of, resembling of capable of forming a thread; filamentous
  2. (of a pulse) weak
  3. Synonyms:
      4. stringy, filamentous, threadlike, fibrous, long, ropy, wiry, wirelike, fibrillar, capilliform, filamentary, fibrillose, filar, capillaceous … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “His pulse was weak, thready, and rapid, his extremities were cold and he was perspiring.”
      “That huge neon glow comes out as a thin, thready coloured tube and nothing like what they saw that night.”
      “Her hair was blonde and thready, and wrinkles covered a face that might have been pretty one day, a long time ago.”
threadlike
  1. Having the form of a thread.
  2. Resembling a thread in length or thinness.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. capillaceous, capilliform, fibrillar, fibrillose, filamentary, filamentous, filar, ropy
  4. Examples:
      5. “He knows that to find the threadlike entrance to the bay you bring the flag-staff over Cart-wright's barn.”
      “No, I'm talking about threadlike wires woven into fabric and powered by miniature batteries that heat your outfit like an electric blanket.”
      “Also, a mat of threadlike filamentous algae floating on the surface greatly increases the rate of water loss through evaporation.”
threaded
  1. Having threads.
  2. (Internet) (Of messages) Arranged in a thread.
threaden
  1. (archaic) Made or woven of thread; textile.
threadsafe
  1. (computing) That can be safely accessed from multiple threads.
threadless
  1. Without a thread.
threadier
  1. comparative form of thready: more thready
  2. Synonyms:
      3. stringier, longer, more filamentous, more threadlike, more fibrous, ropier, wirier, more wirelike, more sinewy, more veined, stalkier, more tissued, coarser … more
threadiest
  1. superlative form of thready: most thready
  2. Synonyms:
      3. stringiest, longest, most filamentous, most threadlike, most fibrous, ropiest, wiriest, most wirelike, most sinewy, most veined, most tissued, stalkiest, coarsest … more
threading
  1. present participle of thread
  2. Synonyms:
      3. passing, easing, stringing, working, inching, moving, pushing, thrusting, poking, looping, squeezing through, passing into, passing through, picking your way, winding, weaving, lacing, linking, tying, concatenating, joining, fastening, connecting, hitching, knitting, locking, pairing, annexing, clamping, interlinking, hooking, clasping, entwining, lashing, leashing, tying up, tiing together, coupling, affixing, fixing, bonding, bridging, sticking, welding, interconnecting, appending, yoking, glueing … more
thridded
  1. simple past tense and past participle of thrid
thridding
  1. present participle of thrid
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